How Can Implementation Research Strengthen Scale up Efforts in Nutrition?

In this two-part video blog, SISN founding member, Purnima Menon, Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division focusses on the opportunities and challenges of conducting implementation research (IR), including in the specific context of addressing wasting in South Asia.

In the first video, Dr. Menon describes how understanding the connection between nutrition interventions and delivery platforms is key to the effectiveness of scale up efforts and how IR, when embedded in the system, can help to shed light on this complex interaction. However, she highlights several challenges of conducting IR in this context.

In the second video, Dr. Menon describes examples of IR in nutrition in South Asia, namely:

An operational assessment by POSHAN in Odisha, India, aiming to examine the state of delivery and use of ten select essential nutrition interventions (ENIs) and the role of intersectoral coordination in their delivery.

Finally, in the context of the UNICEF-organized conference on severe acute malnutrition, Dr. Menon makes some specific suggestions about how IR can be used to better understand issues related to the prevention and treatment of wasting.

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